Learning to be old gender, culture, and aging /

• Main Author: Cruikshank, Margaret.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2009.
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Subjects: Aging > Psychological aspects.; Older people > United States.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Aging.; Electronic books.
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What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is "successful aging" our responsibility? What will happen if we fail to "grow old gracefully"? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the United States is growing rather than diminishing. Gender, race, and sexual...

Table of Contents:

• Cultural myths and aging
• Fear of an aging population
• Sickness and other social roles of old people
• Overmedicating old Americans
• Healthy physical aging
• The politics of healthy aging
• Gender, class, and ethnicity
• Ageism
• Prescribed busyness and its antidotes
• A feminist's view of gerontology and women's aging
• Conclusion: the paradoxes of aging.